"It takes up to 9,100 litres of water to grow the soy for one litre of biodiesel, and up to 4,000 litres for the corn to be transformed into bioethanol. What is meant to alleviate a serious environmental problem (climate change) is making another, even more serious problem (water shortage) worse."
"The Clean Development Mechanism..... is probably not robust enough to do the job on the scale needed. Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Colombia..... thinks the world should copy America’s approach to..... make polluters contribute to a fund which pays for the costs of cleaning up."
"in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all"..... In the face of this, impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced over the years to defend their own fishing expeditions"
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"1) Provide incentives at the individual vessel level. 2) Reward vessels that successfully avoid Chinook. 3) Incentivize vessels to avoid Chinook bycatch at all levels of abundance in all years. 4) Incentives must influence fishing decisions at levels below the hard cap."
"So stressed middle-sized fish make for both happy coral and happy predators—in short, a healthy and highly productive reef. It will remain so over time, even recovering from shocks like the bleaching Palmyra experienced in 1998, if it is not unduly disturbed."
"Many members of Congress, however, fear this sort of cap-and-trade scheme might dramatically increase the price of energy, and so compound the current recession. Others are turned off by the prospect of the government raking in huge dollops of cash from auctioning emissions permits"
"If governments oblige manufacturers to include the cost of disposal in their prices, firms will pass those costs on to consumers, who will have an incentive to buy the products that are the easiest to dispose of and therefore cheapest."
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